Sniper Elite 3 isn’t trying to push boundaries so much as sustain them, to remain perfectly immobile with bated breath like its protagonist; to that extent, it could be fun. But that is not something worth celebrating or supporting. This is no sniper in a field in its immobility: it’s a corpse, rotting on the grave of the video game industry.

This is far from a perfect game, but there's something about it that will make you love playing it. Perhaps it’s that there’s no guns or shooting, even though it’s a third person adventure starring a mid-thirties white dude. Perhaps it’s the intriguing story; perhaps its that you get to actually use ghost powers in some fairly interesting ways. Perhaps it’s the ambition, that people actually made this game at all. That it exists.